{"id":149855,"date":"2025-09-11T21:11:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T21:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/149855\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T21:11:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T21:11:07","slug":"who-are-studbudz-lynx-players-courtney-williams-and-natisha-hiedeman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/149855\/","title":{"rendered":"Who are StudBudz Lynx players Courtney Williams and Natisha Hiedeman?"},"content":{"rendered":"

At the Lynx final home game<\/a> of the season tonight, the top-seeded WNBA team will be giving away pink wigs. <\/p>\n

If you\u2019re extremely offline and missed the hype around the StudBudz<\/a> \u2014 arguably Minnesota\u2019s biggest celebrities right now \u2014 we\u2019ll get you up to speed on the bestie teammates known for their charismatic, all-access livestreams and matching pink crops. <\/p>\n

Lynx guards Courtney Williams and Natisha Hiedeman, who met in 2019 when they both played for the Connecticut Sun. After a few years on different teams, Williams and Hiedeman were reunited by the Lynx in 2024. <\/p>\n

When Williams played in the WNBA All Star Game in July, the duo filmed the long weekend<\/a> for 72 hours straight. Candid cameos with star players included Angel Reese, Paige Bueckers and Caitlin Clark, who said she\u2019d watched hours of the stream. The duo even got WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert to get down with them on the dance floor. (Lynx coach Cheryl Reeve, who was also filmed partying with the StudBudz, later joked that video of her was \u201cAI.\u201d)<\/p>\n

The StudBudz All Star stream countered negative misperceptions that WNBA players are bitter rivals and showed there\u2019s a lot of camaraderie among the fierce competitors<\/a>. Also, the besties\u2019 openness about their lives \u2014 the StudBudz are unapologetically themselves, talking about everything from their ideal partners to their periods \u2014 is a stark contrast from most pro athletes\u2019 tendency to guard their privacy. <\/p>\n

The StudBudz\u2019 accessibility also reflects the WNBA\u2019s inclusive, community-focused approach<\/a> and underscores how players\u2019 salaries make their lifestyles more relatable than those afforded their men\u2019s league peers. And they\u2019re countering the tendency for the spotlight to shine brightest on straight white women athletes who adhere to stereotypical feminine beauty standards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At the Lynx final home game of the season tonight, the top-seeded WNBA team will be giving away…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":88825,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":["post-149855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}